Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-08
Al RAILROAD BOOM.
A New Center Of COMPETE
ton Established.
PASADENA THE FIELD OF WAR.
A Halt Score of Railways Radiat-
ing From That Thriving
Settlement.

gave Pasadena great boom thaS haS
heen continuous for nearly three years.
The marvellous success of that road IN
inducing settlers, including manufactur-
arr. mere bants, orchardisis and gentle
man of fortune to locate there, stimula'
tad other parties to construct railways
.lopo the Streets of the settlement. AS
= result Fair Oaks avenue has line
from the great Raymond to the post.
office. Colorado street has two rail-
roads leading east and two leading
vest. Two hnes extend from this street
10 North Pasadena and another is to be
carried east from California street to
Prospect Avenue, up Prospect Avenue
10 the princely Swartwout properly In
the nortL erly suburbs of Pasadena.
While these roads that are at present
propelled by horsepower seem to hold
The fort, new and powerful company
ha, been incorporated to build steam
hallway of standard gauge from the
Raymond hotel 10 the beautiful uplands
st the base of the Sierra Madre on the
eas. side of the Arroyo Seco, where 1t
will probably cross that cahon, as it
emerc es from the mountains and pass
through La Canada, Crescent Canada,
Monte Vista and Tujupga. to the new
CITY of San Fernando. The locomotives
have been ordered for this line, the rails
have been purchased for it and are on
the way from an eastern manufsciory,
the ties have been ordered and the cars
are now being made TO run upon its
line. Depot grounds have been pur.
ka nf cannra1
for nearly the whole distance. The
right of wy where it has not been
secured by negotiation or purchase, or
cannot be, can be obtained by condem-
nation and arbitration.
The company is in strong hands that
can carry forward its operations with
steady hand. 1t has large amount OF
land contiguous to the new line which
viii advance in value by the making OF
the road sufficiently to pay the cost OF
construction. The parties who are in
tsrested in the construction of this line
arc Hon. L. j. Rose, Hon. P. M. Green,
Major Geo. H. Bonebrake, j. P. Wood
barry. the 4. C. Webster & Co. Syndi-
cate, r. L. Winans and Merick hey
nolds of the San Pedro Lumber Com
pAny, james Cambell and L. w. Dennis.
The passenger and freight depot for
the Pasadena station will be on Colo.
rado street, about 100 rods west OF the
present depot of the Atshison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railway.
A great Union depot is probable on
the north side of the Raymond, where
the Southern Pacific, the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe and the new COM
pany Just described can exchange pas.
seugers. A street car line already has
terminus at that place. A large acreage
Of land has already been purchased at
that point for railway purposes.
Another indication of railway pro.
gress and of the future industrial
progress and prospects of the valley is
TO be seen in the purchase OF land at
Olivewood by the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway Company for its imme-
diate use. Already the Pasadena
switches are crowded with cars SO that
many loaded cars have to go to Olive
wood and wait there till there shall BIZ
room made for them at Pasadena. Be-
sides the Pasadena switches are on an
Inclined plane, where boys or tramps can
loose the breaks and get up minion
editions of Tehachepi. At Oiivewood
. long level track can be secured where
loug trains can be sidetracked. As q
resul. lumber yards will be established
At that place, probably b. the Pasadena
lumber companies as nece ssity to their
large and increasing business.
Another work is now in course of con-
struction that will add vast wealth to
the city Of Pasadena, and that is by the
PARK PLACE IMPROVEMENT co.
This company has started in an en-.
tirely new field of operations, the con.
struction of dummy railroad, with
remarkable energy and great prospects
of success. The managers are largely
interested in land in the San Rafael
Rancho, on the west bank of the Arroyo
Seco, and have purchased all the lands,
fifty.two acres, around the old reser.
voir on Orange Grove avenue, in which
is situated the beautiful live oak grove
nor,h and west of the reservoir. They
have already laid track from the post
off e, in the center of Pasadena, through
Colorado street, Vernon and Walnut
avenues to the tract, and are ready to
lay farther and faster as the graders
mske way for the rails
When the track scrosses Mountain
avenue it enters the oak grove, and
swings around to the south through
Reservoir Terrace, which is being sold
off iu villa lois that overlook the valley
Of the wooded section of the Arroyo
Eeco, with the Verdugo mountains in
the back ground. Here large hotel is
nearly completed, and the land for depot
purposts is being graded as fast as men,
money and teams can do the work. The
situation at this pcint is one of rare
beauty, embracing sylvan scenes and
evergrsea heights in all their impressive
and charming forms.
From The hotel the track turns to the
northward, farrowed deep in the hill
side. end leaps high across the Arroyo
Seco to warm bench of fruitland at
the foot of the Black mountain. This
bench it follows 10 the DEVILS Gate,
where it emerges from its romantic path
along the mountaios and enters the
broa.t rich fields OF La Cansda. From
this point it is not yet determined where
the extension will be made, but it is
pretty certain that it will pass through
La Csfi ida a. an early date Work on
the bridge has been suspended for the
prese mt, on account OF the non-arrival of
ma -eiials, but the graders will push
Morg the liue, and expect to have it
ready for the track to La Canada in
thirty days.
The expectations of Professor Yocum,
" is experimenting the work, and
Mr.. l. N. Mundell, who is also one of
the managers, is to make the high pla-
teau on the west side of the Arroyo
Seco, place for residences Of people of
fortune and admirers of beautiful seem
cry, like the highland plateau above
West Point on the Hudson. The idea
is bold and brilliant, and has been car
risd out quietly and energetically ill it
now shows its forms of beauty and sure
prophecies Of success.
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